As we’ve just started our 2025 reading plan, beginning with Book 1 of the Psalms, here’s a timely word, courtesy of NavPress.

Here are ten reasons why it’s good to sing from the Psalms when you are alone before the Lord:

1. It’s good because the Bible says it’s “good to sing praises to our God” (Psalm 147:1).
2. It’s good because it helps you to “sing to Him a new song,” which the Bible commands in verses such as Psalm 33:3 (see also Psalm 96:1; 98:1; 149:1).
3. It’s good because the Bible says to sing “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
4. It’s good because it nourishes your soul as only the words God inspired for us to sing can do.
5. It’s good because it expresses to the Lord what’s in your heart in a divinely appointed way.
6. It’s good because singing God’s Word reinforces His truth in your heart and mind.
7. It’s good because along with your mind it involves your body and soul, making for a more whole-person worship of God.
8. It’s good because you learn to express yourself biblically.
9. It’s good because it’s enlivening to your soul to sing words that are “living and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12).
10. It’s good because you unite with what the people of God throughout the world have sung for thousands of years.

It really is “good to sing praises to our God.” Enjoy the goodness.

But, Bob, I don’t know the tunes! Fret not: https://psalms.seedbed.com/

For example, here’s the beginning of today’s psalm, Psalm 7, which can be sung to the tune of “God of Our Fathers.”

1 O Lord, my God, in You I refuge take;
Save me from those who would pursue my life.
2 Like a strong lion they would tear and shake,
Leaving no help in all my painful strife. (https://psalms.seedbed.com/psalm-7/)

Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands! Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. (Psalm 100.1, 2, NKJV)